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| 13 | Alessi: | 13 | Alessi: |
| 14 | 14 | ||
| 15 | * email: <alessi@roberalessi.net> | 15 | * email: <alessi@roberalessi.net> |
| 16 | * website: <http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t> | 16 | * website: <http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard> |
| 17 | * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t> | 17 | * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard> |
| 18 | * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard_t/issues> | 18 | * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues> |
| 19 | 19 | ||
| 20 | 20 | ||
| 21 | This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, | 21 | This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, |
| @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: | |||
| 25 | History | 25 | History |
| 26 | ------- | 26 | ------- |
| 27 | This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old | 27 | This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old |
| 28 | Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T* | 28 | Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, it includes new |
| 29 | includes new letters and some corrections: | 29 | letters and some corrections: |
| 30 | 30 | ||
| 31 | 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three | 31 | 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three |
| 32 | styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, | 32 | styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, |
| @@ -38,19 +38,21 @@ includes new letters and some corrections: | |||
| 38 | ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character | 38 | ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character |
| 39 | missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted | 39 | missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted |
| 40 | standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2] | 40 | standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2] |
| 41 | 3. Additionally, *Old Standard T* corrects the `+ss06` feature | 41 | 3. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by |
| 42 | provided by *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish | 42 | *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between |
| 43 | between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta | 43 | regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta |
| 44 | (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature works in most cases | 44 | (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases |
| 45 | with *Old Standard*. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a | 45 | with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if |
| 46 | vowel with an acute accent taken from the *Greek extended* Unicode | 46 | the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the |
| 47 | block. | 47 | *Greek extended* Unicode block. |
| 48 | 48 | ||
| 49 | ### Why *Old Standard T*? | 49 | ### Why a new release of *Old Standard*? |
| 50 | At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years | 50 | At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years |
| 51 | ago. Nevertheless, the letter `T` stands for *Transient*, which means | 51 | ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in |
| 52 | that *Old Standard T*, should only stay as long as what it features is | 52 | need to have new letters included in \emph{Old Standard} and some |
| 53 | not included in *Old Standard*. | 53 | issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release \emph{Old |
| 54 | Standard}. | ||
| 55 | |||
| 54 | 56 | ||
| 55 | Documentation | 57 | Documentation |
| 56 | ------------- | 58 | ------------- |